Strengthening relations between communist parties and celebrating the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth next year were among the topics discussed at a bilateral meeting in London this week between a deputation from the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and officers of the Communist Party of Britain.

The Communist Party of Britain condemns the repressive actions taken by the Spanish government to halt the independence referendum in Catalonia. It sends its solidarity to the Communist Party of Spain, the United Left and other progressive forces who gathered over the weekend at the Assembly of Representatives in Zaragoza to assert and defend the rights of the Catalonian people to hold a referendum on their national future.

'Britain's trade unions must prove their worth to millions of young workers who are in low paid and insecure employment or the future is bleak', Communist Party trade union organiser Andy Bain declared at the conclusion of the TUC annual conference on Wednesday.

Lexit: the Left Leave campaign has attacked as 'petty, vindictive and disproportionate' an Electoral Commission decision to fine the anti-EU campaign organisation £500 for late delivery of a financial return following last year's EU referendum.

The Communist Party of Britain has welcomed the results of last Sunday's referendum in Venezuela to create a Constituent Assembly under article 347 of that country's democratically adopted constitution.

The Ban

In December 2015, the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) was outlawed. The ban has been condemned around the world. Amnesty International called it 'a flagrant violation of freedom of expression and association' which should be immediately overturned.